BARGAINS Synonyms: 108 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of bargain

as in deals

something bought or offered for sale at a desirable price those shoes were a bargain because the store was going out of business

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as in agreements

an arrangement about action to be taken made a bargain that one would help the other next week

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bargains

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bargain

as in negotiates

to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase they bargained with the car salesman for half an hour before settling on a price

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as in covenants

to come to an arrangement as to a course of action I really hadn't bargained on buying a whole case of Girl Scout cookies, just a couple of boxes

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as in arranges

to bring about through discussion and compromise bargained the price of the painting down to a figure that the artist could still live with

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Recent Examples of bargains

Noun

The hottest travel trend may not be escaping the heat but taking advantage of off-season bargains in warm-weather destinations. — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026 At this point, most of these deals would have to be bargains, because cap space is pretty much all used up. — Zach Harper, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Friends of the Roswell Library Book Sale Stock your bookshelves with bargains — including $1 novels and nonfiction and 50-cent cookbooks — as your purchases benefit the Roswell Library. — Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 28 July 2026 There are two unbelievable bargains hidden in the fine print of the Connecticut Pizza & Brew Fest to take place August 2 at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport. — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026 There are only two days left before the BOGO bargains wrap up at Abercrombie. — Camila Quimper, Footwear News, 24 July 2026 In July 2013, all five defendants agreed to plea bargains and received various sentences. — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026 But by one measure, at least, the megacaps are starting to look like bargains. — Sarah Min, CNBC, 8 July 2026 At 40 percent off, the Hoka Bondi 8 Caged Sneakers are one of the biggest bargains on this list. — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026

Verb

The union usually bargains in the same year as performers’ union SAG-AFTRA and directors’ union the Directors Guild of America. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 6 Apr. 2026 One potential—though untested—workaround would be for conferences, which are private entities, to serve as a joint employer that bargains with a players’ union. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Mar. 2026 In this Gothic fantasy debut, Leena Al-Sayer bargains her ability to see the dead in order to pay for the expensive medicine her brother Rami needs to live. — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026 One of the best Cyber Monday bargains out there is this incredible OLED portable from Asus, which is crammed with high-end silicon for peak performance on all of today's top titles. — PC Magazine, 30 Nov. 2025 The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of the studios, congratulated Mulroney on her election. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Sep. 2025 Oscar nominee and Lord of the Rings alum Astin will have quite the task ahead of them at the top of next year as SAG-AFTRA returns to the negotiating table with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which collectively bargains on behalf of the major Hollywood studios. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025 Miami bargains Despite sporting baseball’s lowest payroll, the Miami Marlins have outperformed the league’s highest-spending teams this summer. — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bargains

Noun

Ruffalo plays Tom Brandis, a former priest who now heads an FBI task force looking into a string of murders and drug deals — as well as a spur-of-the-moment kidnapping — that happened in the backwoods of Pennsylvania’s Delaware County.

— Whitney Friedlander, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026
The public internet has been scraped, licensing deals are expensive and slow, and synthetic data drifts away from reality when a model learns mostly from itself.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of deals

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Judge Martinez-Olguin echoed those concerns in her ruling, noting that the new legal services agreements appeared to cover only a fraction of the services needed and failed to explain how compliance would be monitored.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
The incentives can be restored now, according to the Data Center Coalition, if they’re tied to requirements for clean energy, sustainable water usage and labor agreements.

— John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of agreements

Verb

The government employs nearly 2,300 people, many of whom are represented by 13 bargaining units that the Unified Government negotiates with.

— Sofi Zeman August 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026
Cusick and Kretschmann offer complementary chords of variable petulance and insecurity, as newcomer Cuoso ably negotiates her character’s shifting ambiguities.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026

Definition of negotiates

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Sanchez plays Tere, a cello musician-composer in whose apartment Rosa (played by Rosa Estela Juárez Vargas), a contemporary music composer, arranges her first television interview.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
For those who want the Riviera beyond the shoreline, the hotel arranges bespoke experiences.

— Jason Phillips, USA Today, 22 July 2026

Definition of arranges

Noun

Duran has been crafty on the base paths, recording eight steals on 10 attempts.

— Data Skrive, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Former Arizona Wildcat guard Gabe York, who scored 11 points with seven rebounds, four assists and four steals in Davis Steel’s 67-59 victory over UK’s La Familia on Sunday in the TBT’s $2 million winner-take-all finals, was named tourney MVP.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of steals

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Since the start of the free agency period, Indiana has signed Jalen Slawson and Kobe Brown to two-way contracts, and teams are permitted to have up to three players under two-way pacts at the same time.

— Tony East, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
But that framework would be governed by the two countries themselves, instead of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which conventionally oversees nuclear pacts.

— Chris Boccia, ABC News, 22 July 2026

Definition of pacts

Verb

The department is looking to buy eight Skydio X10 drones from Axon, the same company the department contracts with to surveil cars in the city.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026
This means that immunity against other threats such as the common cold, flu or coronavirus can disappear if a person contracts measles without any existing immunity.

— Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2026